OBJECTIVES to measure whether people aged 65 and over living in Britain would be willing to give up their place on the cardiac surgery waiting list for someone younger than them. METHODS two British surveys, based on random types of people sampled for the Office for National Statistics Omnibus Surveys, identified respondents aged 65 and over for a module on waiting lists. They were asked to i...

we aimed to clarify the status and causes of mortality and to provide a general strategy to increase the longevity and improve human health. mortality rate of under 5 years old is an important indicator of development in different communities and reveals their life quality. it was a case – control study, data was collected from all deaths of under five years that had been recorded in rural area...

Rotavirus is the major cause of diarrhoea in children worldwide. In this study, conducted in the city of Ahwaz, Iran, during November 2001-March 2002, stool samples from 200 inpatient (n=63) and outpatient (n=137) children aged 1-24 month(s) were analyzed. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis was used for isolating rotavirus. Rotavirus was isolated from 36 (26.3%) of the 137 stool samples of outp...

The low mobility of seniors may be due in part to a history of auto-oriented transportation and land use policy decisions. More recently, land use policies that make it possible to drive less show promise of effectiveness for the population as a whole. However, little attention has been paid to the implications of such policies for older people. Using data collected from Northern California in ...

Abstract Population aging and the proliferation of numerous social networking sites such as Facebook (FB) have necessitated different approaches to investigating age-based discrimination called ageism. Although current evidence provided information on younger adults’ attitudes towards older adults, little is known about individuals’ their peers in a digital sphere. This autoethnographic study, ...